All About Our Ministry and Our Founder, the British Evangelical Conservative Theologian, Robin A. Brace, BD.

In 2001, Robin A. Brace said,"I have made it my mission to make 1,000 articles of good
solid Christian teaching available through the internet by
2010." In 2007, Robin was able to say, "We are ahead of
target and well over half way there. We approach Apologetics,
theology, countercult and philosophy only through the eyes of
faith, and we are committed to uncovering error. We uphold the
right of Christians to differ in peripheral areas whilst quickly
denouncing heresy, thereby replicating the approach of the early
church and of the 'church fathers.'"

This ministry commenced with the establishing of museltof
christian ministries (capitals purposely omitted), as an
internet ministry on MSN free web space in 2001. This quickly led
to other free web space being used but the limitations of using
free web space soon became apparent and, by late 2006, all areas
of this ministry are to be found on webspace which we actually
pay for and this means increased reliability, stability and the freedom not to run ads decided by people outside this ministry. Now we run occasional ads of our own simply to point visitors to certain of our own articles. The bulk of the
ministry will be found on UK Apologetics, but we
continue to maintain a certain separation for Witness to
the Word and Museltof
Countercult and Apologetics.

More About Robin

Robin A. Brace was born in 1944 in Cardiff, south Wales, UK
and started developing a passion for Bible study at the age of
16. In his earlier years, upon noting how liberal theology had
seriously compromised the established denominations, he had
tended to identify with various adventist-type groups, but this was to
dramatically change around 1988-90 when an exceptionally
rigorous period of Bible study revealed to Robin that he had
seriously misunderstood the central New Testament doctrine of
Justification by Faith. Robin clearly saw that the adventist-type cults
and sects accepted an understanding of Justification which was at
complete variance with New Testament Pauline teaching. He came to
see that he had been guilty of 'throwing the baby out with
the bathwater' in rejecting established Christian theology
simply because of theological liberalism; the enemy was Liberal
Theology - not established evangelical theology! At the
time Robin and his family were fellowshiping with the
Worldwide Church of God. who - around this same time -
also started to realise that they had seriously misinterpreted
Justification by Faith, as well as admitting the error of looking
upon founder Herbert W. Armstrong as an apostle, so when Robin
became a WCG lay preacher in April 1991 he immediately went onto
the group's Christian/evangelical and anti-legalist wing and was
active in warning of previous errors in understanding in the last three years of the couple's involvement with the group.

Robin and Tina Brace pictured at The Italian Gardens, Penarth, Wales, in July
2006.

In January, 1994 Mr and Mrs Brace finally left
the WCG. Robin then took a Bachelor of Divinity theology
degree from 1995 at the University of Wales, Cardiff,
graduating with honours in 1998, the same year as he was accepted
as a minister. But Robin did not take up a pastorate of a
specific congregation but found life quite enjoyable as a travelling 'guest minister,' then, in 2001, he felt strongly led to set up
an internet-based Christian ministry. This is the 'new frontier' of Christian witness of internet evangelism, and it is a serious concern to us that false and money-motivated ministries have - predictably! - quickly moved in. Our ministry will do all it can to counteract that influence.
In 2006 our websites were receiving 100,000 annual 'hits' and
Robin, who is a soft landscaper by trade, is kept busy answering
Bible questions which come in from all over the world. Whilst the
ministry has received several invitations for Robin to preach in such diverse places as Kenya, Ghana,
India and Pakistan, the decision has been made (based mainly on
financial considerations and also on the consideration of Robin's health), to confine it to being an
internet ministry. Robin, however, is prepared to accept occasional preaching invitations, or to give talks about his internet ministry, in southern Britain. However, due to health difficulties and the fact that he is now writing around 60-70 articles per year and is also kept very busy answering Bible questions, Robin now only accepts speaking invitations during the spring and summer months.
Married to Tina since 1977, the couple have four children and
have also spent twelve years as foster carers.

Robin has a wide range of interests, he is, for example, passionately fond of both classical music and jazz (he
is an ex-trumpet player himself), and his favourite composers include Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Sibelius and Mahler. His favourite jazz performers include Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. In fact, he is something of an authority on the modern jazz "bebop" music of the 1940's, and retains some occasional involvement in jazz music journalism (Robin has contributed some material here.)
Robin has many interests, he has studied French, Hebrew and Greek and is passionately interested in modern history, and also in modern information technology. Yet another passion of Robin's is horticulture, and Robin is a qualified soft landscaper holding an RHS Certificate. He is also a very keen rugby union
fan.

Our Overall Theological Approach

Much of our overall approach can be learned by
reading what Robin sees as his Job
Description. But Robin's fascination for Bible study, which
now covers a period of over 40 years, has led him to a position
which is loosely conservative evangelical. He also refuses to
join either side in the very old Arminian/Calvinism debate. When I asked Robin
about this, he stated,"Both Calvinism and Arminianism are ultimately philosophical approaches fashioned by
the overly doctrinaire approaches of theologians; my intention is
only to be guided by Holy Scripture. We should allow minor
differences of opinion between genuine believers - just as the
'church fathers' so wisely did - but quickly notice, and then
denounce, heresy! I see some errors in the extremes of
Arminianism as well as Calvinism, but the errors are probably
most extreme in hyper-Calvinism. 'Fatalism' comes from the pagans
and 'Restrictivism' is unbiblical. So whilst I firmly support evangelicalism and consider myself 'evangelical,' I feel that this movement has probably erred in following the lead of Augustinian Western theology to the degree that it has. I hugely admire C.S. Lewis and Francis Shaeffer."

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DCG, UK Apologetics Assistant Editor, 2007.